Anti-French feelings run high in most Gallic US city

The Daily Telegraph ^ | May 2, 2003 | Marcus Warren

[MadIvan]

I happen to like New Orleans. Now I don't feel guilty about it. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Billthedrill]

De Cajuns, dey speak de French, but I don't tink dey like dese guys...

[Southack]

De Cajuns, dey no git no killed off in dey World War One un dey World War Two. Dey no get no emasculated. Dey no sip no cup of no bad communism. Dey families left France jus in time, no.

[nutmeg]

bump

[Shermy]

"I have no use for them now," said Joe Thurman. "We protected their butt back then and now they fight against us tooth and toenail. And when we make a success of it in Iraq, now they want a piece of the action."

"Maybe they have something to offer with their food and wine but it's their principles - if they have any - and their leaders I can't stand."

Basically says it all.

[MeekMom]

LOL!
The very mention of the dreded word "france" makes my stomach lurch!

[Martin Tell]

.. a victorious military expedition to the Orient, to Egypt.

Hardly "victorious." Nelson whipped the French fleet and Bonney barely escaped, abandoning his troops to deal with the plague and finally to surrender to the Turks.

Napoleaon's spinning of this adventure into a victory is surely one of history's notable con jobs.

[xm177e2]

A lot of the Cajuns are descended from French Canadians... who have no love for France.

[Coroner]

Life long python addict??
Are you a herper??

[Burkeman1]

When is this lemming like idiocy going to stop about France? We didn't fight WWII or WWI to "save" France and the French are mature enought to know it. We went into WWI because we had a President who wanted to get into it. We went into WWII because we were attacked by Japan and Germany declared war on us. That we liberated France was incidental- not the reason we went to war in either case.

What does France "owe" us? Nothing. They owe us nothing, zilch, zero, nada. Gratitude is a dog's disease from which nations never suffer in dealing with others. No nation- including this one- will ever operate it's foreign policy on past alliances or percieved debts. Any nation that does is a fool.

Is the current French policy of opposition to the current US foreign policy wrong? Perhaps. Is it based on it's own percieved interests (even if they are not the right interests)? Most likely.

But let's stop all this nonesence about the French being "ingrates" and "traitors". France is an independent nation that rightly or wrongly is acting in what she believes to be her interests. They "owe" us nothing. What if France supported us? Would it have mattered a bit in the outcome of this war? Why the hatred?

[aristeides]

The Quebeckers used to dislike Republican France. In the days of Duplessis and the Union Nationale, they thought that Republican France was godless, and their own loyalty was to the monarchist, Catholic France that preceded the French Revolution. How times have changed!

[Norse]

Actually, the expedition to Egypt was a huge success...in the short term...just like Napoleon's entire career...but you would be right in saying that it was a failure in the long run.

The whole thing went to hell when Napoleon was forced to go back to France, since those in power were screwing things up on the European front. If he remained with his forces in Egypt...history may have favored the French forces

Just so you know, besides Finance, this is my field of study...so I didn't just make it up! I'm not exactly what you would call a Bonapartist, either.

[Servant of the Nine]

A lot of the Cajuns are descended from French Canadians... who have no love for France.

French Canadians are the principal reason that Canada has turned from Ally to Enemy.

So9

[Servant of the Nine]

Swamp Canary Ping

So9

[Martin Tell]

Well, he beat the Marmalukes, but could not even take Acre. Hardly what I would call a success.

[xm177e2]

French Canadians are the principal reason that Canada has turned from Ally to Enemy.

True enough. But they're not in love with France. They just hate America a lot more (because the Anglosphere is more of a threat to them because France is too far away). If Canada was attached to France they would hate that. They just don't fit in, anywhere in the world. It is a sad story. They should just secede and make their own state and be happy there.

[Incorrigible]

Hmmmmm, Will I be vacationing in Bayonne, NJ this summer....

 

Or in Bayonne, France:

 

Bayonne, NJ!!!

 

[MeekMom]

Hmmmm.
Don't know what that is. Do tell.

[Coroner]

I guess you're not. a herper is someone who collects or searches for reptiles and amphibians!